Treaties in Context II: An Interdisciplinary Contribution to the Course on the Law of Treaties

1. Treaties in context II.An interdisciplinary contribution to the course on the law of treaties TREATY MAKING IN PRACTICE. Multilateral and bilateral negotiations. Techniques and tactics. Presented by Boldizsár Nagyat the Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014

2. The conclusion of a treaty and ancillary steps

3. Negotiation – key elements • Goals of negotiations • Genuine Disguised Communication itself • Extension Win time • Redistribution Gather information • Innovation Create „black sheep” • Normalisation Impact 3rd states • Techniques applied • Package deals Square bracketing „Consensus”

4. Negotiation – key elements • The role of the language • The weight of the personalities (chairperson, president of the conference) • The significance of the informal entities (open-ended working groups, „friends of the president” group) • Rules of procedure - frequently the key to substantive victory • Time factor and the „definitive text”

5. Expressing consent to be bound by a treaty Means of expressing consent to be bound by a treaty • Vienna Convention, Article 11 The consent of a State to be bound by a treaty may be expressed by • signature, • exchange of instruments constituting a treaty, • ratification, acceptance, approval • or accession, • or by any other means if so agreed.

6. Recommended readings Books: Arnold D. McNair [Lord Mc Nair]: The Law of treaties, Oxford, 1961 Paul Reuter: Introduction to the Law of Treaties, London, Kegan, 1995 Ian Sinclair [Sir]: The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 2nd ed. Manchster university press, 1984 Jan Klabbers: The Concept of Treaty in international Law, The Hague, Kluwer, 1996 National Treaty Law and Practice (series of the American Siciety of Int’l Law, edited by Monroe Leigh and Merritt R Blakeslee) 1995: France, Germany, India, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, 1999: (Leigh, Blekeslee and - Benjamin Ederington eds) – Austria, Chile, Colombia, Japan, The Netherlands, United States, 2003: (The same eds.): Canada, Egypt, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa Rüdiger Wolfrum – Volker Röben (eds.): Developments of international Law in Treaty Making, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2005 Villiger, Mark E.: Commentaryon the 1969 Vienna Conventionon the Law of Treaties Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2009 Corten, Olivier, and Pierre Klein. (eds): The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Oliver Dörr and Kirsten Schmalenbach (eds).: The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary. Berlin: Springer, 2012 Anthony Aust: Modern Treaty Law and Practice, 3rd ed Cambridge, CUP, 2014

7. Thanks! Boldizsár Nagy Eötvös Loránd University andCentral European University Budapest www.nagyboldizsar.hu